Rise and Fall of Ancient Greek Civilizat

Rise & Fall Ancient Greek

This lecture course provides a high-order introduction to the study of the ancient Mediterranean through the prism of ancient Greece, broadly construed as comprising Greek-speaking communities in the eastern and western Mediterranean, Egypt, and North Africa, from 600BCE to 100CE. The timeframe transects the end of the Archaic, the Classical Period, the Hellenization of Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, and the advent of the Roman empire. 

 

Extensive geographic and temporal frames seek to work beyond conventional regional divisions (Athens, Ptolemaic Egypt, Macedonia) and periodizations (Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic) in which the ancient world is often studied. Instead, after a two-week, introductory overview of the emergence of Greece-speaking civilizations in the Mediterranean, students will be asked to analyze bodies of ancient evidence that attest to the workings of ancient institutions and practices across time and space; at the same time, students will be asked to analyze specific regions (Attica, Laconia, Ionia, Alexandria) as they emerged, became independently prominent, and were subsequently integrated into successive state forms and empires. 

 

Our approach to ancient Greece will be synthetic and interdisciplinary. By combining literary analysis, history, archaeology, and philosophy, this course seeks to develop a holistic understanding of ancient Greece culture. Students will read, for instance, works of dramatic plays by Sophocles and erotic poems of Sappho (in translation), whilst simultaneously exploring ancient monuments and the archaeological and art historical record; will study historiographers Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius and at the same time be asked to read works of ancient science and medicine attributed to Hippocrates and by Galen; they will study works of ancient philosophy by Plato and Aristotle in juxtaposition sigh fragmentary inscriptions discovered in the Near East, Egyptian papyri, and other forms of documentary evidence. Topics include: women, gender, and sexuality; emergence of the polis (city-state), state formation, empire; democracy, monarchy, oligarchy; Athens, Sparta, and the Peloponnesian war; philosophy and literature; science and medicine; the symposium; the family; city, country-side, resource extraction; ancient technology, warfare, environment.

 

Why study the ancient Greeks at all ? The answers to this question have varied, and part of the point of this course will be to think about our

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Rise & Fall of Ancient Greek Civilizatio

Rise/Fall of Ancnt Grk Ci

Discussion section for CLCV UN1002.

• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• F 9:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Emma Ianni
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• Instructor: Shenda Kuang
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• 1 points

ELEMENTARY LATIN I

For students who have never studied Latin. An intensive study of grammar with reading of simple prose and poetry.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Brett L Stine
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY GREEK II

Prerequisites: GREK UN1101 or the equivalent, or the instructor or the director of undergraduate studies permission. Continuation of grammar study begun in GREK UN1101; selections from Attic prose.

• MWF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
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• Instructor: Nicholas Koudounis
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• 4 points

ELEMENT. MODERN GREEK II

Prerequisites: GRKM UN1101 or the equivalent. Continuation of GRKM UN1101. Introduction to modern Greek language and culture. Emphasis on speaking, writing, basic grammar, syntax, and cross-cultural analysis.

• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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• 4 points

ELEMENTARY LATIN II

Prerequisites: LATN UN1101. A continuation of LATN UN1101, including a review of grammar and syntax for students whose study of Latin has been interrupted.

• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Melody A Wauke
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• Instructor: David M Ratzan
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• 4 points

INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY GREEK

Covers all of Greek grammar and syntax in one term. Prepares the student to enter second-year Greek (GREK UN2101 or GREK UN2102).

• TRF 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Valeria Spacciante
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INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY LATIN

Equivalent to Latin 1101 and 1102. Covers all of Latin grammar and syntax in one term to prepare the student to enter Latin 1201 or 1202. This is an intensive course with substantial preparation time outside of class.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Erin J Petrella
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE LATIN I

Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.

• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Olivier Bordeleau-Lavoie
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE GREEK II: HOMER

Prerequisites: GREK UN1101- GREK UN1102 or GREK UN1121 or the equivalent. Detailed grammatical and literary study of several books of the Iliad and introduction to the techniques or oral poetry, to the Homeric hexameter, and to the historical background of Homer.

• TRF 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK II

Prerequisites: GRKM UN2101 or the equivalent. Continuation of GRKM UN2101. Students complete their knowledge of the fundamentals of Greek grammar and syntax while continuing to enrich their vocabulary.

• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Chrysanthe Filippardos
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• 4 points

INTERMEDIATE LATIN II

This course condenses the second semester of Intermediate Latin (2102) into a sixweek summer session. Its goal is to further develop reading and interpretation skills in Classical Latin through engagement with Roman authors while continuing to review the essentials of Latin grammar. In the first half of the course, we cover selections from Ovid’s epic poem, the Metamorphoses; in the second, we take up the prose writings of Seneca the Younger including selections from his Epistulae Morales and the philosophical dialogue De vita beata.

Prerequisites: LATN UN2101 or the equivalent. Selections from Ovids Metamorphoses and from Sallust, Livy, Seneca, or Pliny.

• TRF 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Marissa K Swan
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• Instructor: Jose Antonio Cancino Alfaro
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CLASSICAL LATIN PROSE

Prerequisites: LATN W2202 or equivalent This course is intended to complement Latin V3012: Augustan Poetry in providing students I a transition between the elementary, grammatical study of Latin texts to a more fluent understanding of complex literary style. Latin V3013 will largely concentrate on different styles of writing, particularly narrative, invective, and argument. Text will be drawn primarily from Ciceros orations, with some readings form his rhetorical works.

• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
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• 3 points

WORLDS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

This seminar looks at the narrative and the historical context for an extraordinary event: the conquest of the Persian empire by Alexander III of Macedonia, conventionally known as “Alexander the Great”. We will explore the different worlds Alexander grew out of, confronted, and affected: the old Greek world, the Persian empire, the ancient near-east (Egypt, Levant, Babylonia, Iran), and the worlds beyond, namely pre-Islamic (and pre-Silk Road) Central Asia, the Afghan borderlands, and the Indus valley. The first part of the course will establish context, before laying out a narrative framework; the second part of the course will explore a series of themes, especially the tension between military conquest, political negotiation, and social interactions. Overall, the course will serve as an exercise in historical methodology (with particular attention to ancient sources and to interpretation), an introduction to the geography and the history of the ancient world (classical and near-eastern), and the exploration of a complex testcase located at the contact point between several worlds, and at a watershed of world history.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Ma
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• 3 points

Picturing Antigone

What is it that makes
Antigone
, Sophocles’s tragedy from the 5th century B.C.E, such a powerful vehicle for the consideration of subjectivity, ethics, and politics in the present day? In this seminar an anthropologist and a photojournalist consider
Antigone
’s productivity for political analysis, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist studies and consider how the play has evolved into a contemporary site for the consideration of war, fascism, ethical action, gender, democracy, and colonialism in places such as Nazi-occupied Paris, the Texas-Mexico border, “dirty-war” Argentina, apartheid South Africa, Taliban-sieged Kandahar, and Covid-striken New York. This investigation draws on a wide range of materials, including literary criticism, film, and archival photographs. Throughout the semester, students also develop familiarity with photography as a medium of inquiry, in preparation for their final projects on a modern adaptation of Antigone. 

• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 3 points

Gendered Mythology and its Reception

Gendered Mythology & Rece

Students will read narratives of mythical women re-imagined by female authors alongside the ancient texts that introduce these characters.

• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Lien Van Geel
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• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE SELECTIONS II

SELECTIONS GREEK LIT: PROSE

Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

LATIN LITERATURE SELECTIONS

Prerequisites: LATN UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
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• 3 points

Mental health in Literature from antiqui

This seminar explores the relationship between literature, culture, and mental health. It pays particular emphasis to the
poetics
of emotions structuring them around the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance and the concept of hope. During the course of the semester, we will discuss a variety of content that explores issues of race, socioeconomic status, political beliefs, abilities/disabilities, gender expressions, sexualities, and stages of life as they are connected to mental illness and healing. Emotions are anchored in the physical body through the way in which our bodily sensors help us understand the reality that we live in. By feeling backwards and thinking forwards, we will ask a number of important questions relating to literature and mental health, and will trace how human experiences are first made into language, then into science, and finally into action.

The course surveys texts from Homer, Ovid, Aeschylus and Sophocles to Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, C.P. Cavafy, Dinos Christianopoulos, Margarita Karapanou, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina Gogou etc., and the work of artists such as Toshio Matsumoto, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Anohni.

• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
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SELECTIONS FROM GREEK LIT

Prerequisites: GREK UN2101 - GREK UN2102 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes each year, it may be repeated for credit.

• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SELECTIONS FROM LATIN LITERATURE

SELECTNS FROM LATIN LIT-POETRY

Prerequisites: LATN UN3012 or the equivalent. Since the content of this course changes from year to year, it may be repeated for credit.

• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE I

Prerequisites: at least two terms of Greek at the 3000-level or higher. Readings in Greek literature from Homer to the 4th century B.C.

• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Deborah Steiner
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

Religions of the Roman World

RELIGIONS OF ROMAN WORLD

The goal of this course is to convey an important amount of knowledge on the religious history of the Roman empire focusing both on paganism, Christianity and Judaism and their interaction. We will study the religious space, the agents of cults and religions, rituals and networks and dynamics of power. The course will also face the challenge to reconsider the points of view from which to think the religious history of the Roman Empire and therefore it will be an invitation to revise our intellectual tools and questions towards an awareness to what is at stake when an object of religious debate emerges.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

HISTORY OF LATIN LIT II

Prerequisites: at least two terms of Latin at the 3000-level or higher. Latin literature from Augustus to 600 C.E.

• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 4 points

Topics Through Greek Film

This course explores issues of memory and trauma, public history and testimony, colonialism and biopolitics, neoliberalism and governmentality, and crisis and kinship, all through the medium of Greek film. It brings the Greek cinema canon (Angelopoulos, Cacoyannis, Gavras, Koundouros, et al.) into conversation with the work of contemporary artists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, and the recent “weird wave” and asks: what kind of lens does film offer onto the study of a society’s history and contemporary predicament? The viewing and discussion of films is facilitated through a consideration of a wide range of materials, including travelogues, criticism, archival footage, and interviews with directors. The course does not assume any background knowledge and all films will have English subtitles. An additional 1-credit bilingual option (meeting once per week at a time TBD) is offered for students who wish to read, view, and discuss materials in Greek.

• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Argyro Nicolaou
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GRADUATE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

GRAD RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

The Graduate Research Colloquium is a forum that offers two types of research seminars over the course of the semester. In the first, formerly the Graduate Colloquium, up to six outside speakers are invited by the graduate organizers to present research papers to an audience of graduates, faculty and others interested within the larger NYC Classics community, and afterwards to engage in discussion. The second is a Work-in-Progress seminar in which Columbia Classics graduate students present their research to their graduate peers in whatever format they deem most conducive to conveying their research to their audience and receiving feedback. The audience for these eight seminars is restricted to graduate students, the instructor who presides over the course, and any faculty the graduate student presenters choose should choose to invite. At least one semester of the Graduate Research Colloquium is required for MAO students and PhD students must attend the course in both the Fall and Spring semesters of their first year.

• F 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
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• 2 points

ELEMENTS LATIN PROSE STYLE

Prerequisites: at least four semesters of Latin, or the equivalent. Intensive review of Latin syntax with translation of English sentences and paragraphs into Latin.

• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kristina Milnor
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• 3 points

Academic Writing for Classicists

Academic Writing in Class

In this class, students will develop their skills at academic writing in the field of Classics, as well as their skills at critically reading the work of others. Of particular focus will be articles for academic journals, abstracts for conferences, and the fundamental principles that underlie all scholarly writing in our discipline. As the class is aimed at MA and PhD students in Classics, it is expected that students will have a moderately broad working knowledge of the field of Classics (post-bacs in Classics and graduate students from related disciplines are welcome). Junior or senior undergraduates who have taken the major seminar (or are of equivalent standing at Barnard) are welcome with instructor permission. 

• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
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• 3 points

GREEK LITERATURE AND FEMINIST RECEPTIONS

GREEK LIT & FEMINIST RECE

Greek 8005 is designed as an upper-level seminar in Greek, updated to include larger conceptual issues such as inflections of identity (e.g., gender, race) and intersections of aesthetics and politics. This version will focus on feminist receptions of ancient Greek literature, with emphases on innovations that feature gender/genre, orientation, race, and embodiment. Each module will focus on one ancient author and one modern, so that we will have time to read the ancient Greek with care and think through modern shifts in outlook and emphases. Each module will also feature other shorter works of fiction and criticism by way of framing and broadening discussions.

• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
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Horace, Odes

Horace’s four books of 
Odes
 constitute one of the classics of Latin poetry and one of the most influential texts in western literary history.  In this seminar, we will study the complete 
Odes
 in the original Latin, considering such diverse aspects as the poems’ style and meter, their poetics, their relationship to Greek lyric, their historical and political context, and their philosophical background and message(s). 

• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points